On some analytical properties of stable densities

Abstract

L.Bondesson [1] conjectured that the density of a positive $\alpha$-stable distribution is hyperbolically completely monotone (HCM in short) if and only if $\alpha$ $\le$ 1/2. This was proved recently by P. Bosch and Th. Simon, who also conjectured a strengthened version of this result. We disprove this conjecture as well as a correlated conjecture of Bondesson, while giving a short new proof of the initial conjecture, as a direct consequence of a new algebraic property of HCM and Generalized Gamma convolution densities (GGC in short) which we establish.